MultiCDPlayer V 1.01 14.01.1996 - Public Domain - MANUAL 1. Preface MCDPlayer is public domain, meaning that you can use and spread the program as you want. You are using MCDPlayer on your own risk. I cannot be held responsible for any damage caused by MCDPlayer. This includes system crashes, bugs in the program or this documentation. This will be the only distribution of MCDP done by me. It works fine with some SCSI2-CDROMs (i.e. Toshiba 4101, 3401, SONY CDU-554) but refuses to run on others (NEC). I don't have the time to search for bugs that occurs in combination with hardware that I do not own. I hope there's anyone who will continue development of MCDP. Boris Jakubaschk Im ?schle 28 78727 Oberndorf Germany FIDO 2:246/1115.2 EMail Boris@alice.tynet.sub.org Thanks to: - Gary Duncan and Heiko Rath for SCSIUtil - Matt Dillon for DICE - Jan van den Baard for GadToolsBox 2. The purpose of this program... ...is to play audio CDs (CDDAs) on your CD-ROM drive. Therefore it must be connected to a SCSI-host. MCDP has some special features: - Very compact GUI on your Workbench screen - GUI is designed like a CD player - direct access of first 20 titles of every CD - automatically detects CDs and displays the interpreter, the CDs title and the name of the title currently played. - automatically detects the change of the CD. - Editor to add new CDs to your database. - Editor for programming - Configuration using tooltypes: SCSI-device and -unit, window position and path of CD database - Commodoty with hotkeys for start/stop/title selection 3. Installation: Before you start it for the first time, you should adapt the tooltypes of MCDPs icon to your hardware configuration: FONTNAME=<name>.font Replace <name> with the name of the font you want to use in the display. There are 4 Fonts in the MCDP archive: - MCDP_DOT.font : Looks like a dot matrix LCD display - MCDP_LCD.font : Looks like a segmented LCD display - MDCP_LC2.font : LCD display font including lower case characters - MCDP_STD.font : Best readable but somehow boring You must copy at least one of these fonts to your FONTS: drawer and set its name in the tooltypes. SCSI_DEV=<name>.device Insert the device name of your SCSI host as <name>. Commodore uses scsi.device as device name for their hosts. This is the default value. SCSI_ID=<nr> SCSI-ID of your CD-ROM drive. As this number must be in the range of 0 to 6, you can detect it by "try and error" if you don't know it. Default value is 1. SONGPATH=<path> Use this tooltype to determine the path where MCDP will save its CD database. Default is the actual drawer at startup. WND_POS=<path> MCDP opens its window on the default publicscreen. You can determine the position: 0: Centered to the visual part of your screen (if your screen doesn't auto scroll: centered to the screen) 1: right upper corner of the screen 2: left upper corner of the screen 3: left lower corner of the screen 4: right lower corner of the screen The editor windows always open in the screen center. Wrong settings lead to the following results: - MCDP refuses to start: Wrong device name or unoccupied SCSI-ID. - MCDP starts, but only shows the "breadless arts" logo: The ID doesn't belong to a CD-ROM drive or it is not operable. - MCDP opens its window and closes it instantly: The font can't be found. Now you can start MCDP from Workbench. It is also possible to start it from Shell by using the tooltypes as parameters: MCDP "SCSI_DEV=gvpscsi.device" "SCSI_ID=1" "SONGPATH=Music:CDs/" 4 Bedienung: The "Look & Feel" of MCDP is almost identical to a CD player. So there should be no problems. I'll describe the gadgets below the display first, beginning at the left edge: Play ( > ): Play CD, beginning with the first title. In program mode, playing starts with the first title of the program. In both cases the CD-ROM must have been in idle state before, the play symbol ( ">", right lower corner of display ) mustn't have been visible. Pause ( || ): Pauses playing until this Gadget is klicked again. Stop ( [] ): Stops playing and quits program mode. Skip backwards ( |< ): Skips to the title that has been played before the actual one. Skip forward ( >| ): Skips to the next title. Search backward ( << ): Jumps 20 seconds backwards in the actual title. Search forward ( >> ): Jumps 20 seconds forward in the actual title. Eject ( ^ ): Eject CD. At the right side of the display you find some more gadgets: Number gadgets ( 1-19 ): In standard mode you can select the first 19 titles of the CD directly. In program mode the keys 1-8 select the actual pro- gram, the others are unused. Direct input ( + ): Now you can type in the title number using the number gadgets 1 to 10 (= 0). Edit title list ( LIST ): You see a window with some gadgets to put in the interpreters and the CDs name and the names of all titles. To leave this window you find the same gadgets as in the preferences pro- grams of your workbench. After you saved the title list of a CD, this CD will be iden- tified whenever you insert it. The titles are displayed. Edit programs ( PGM ): In the program window, you see two big lists: On the left side, all titles of the actual CD are displayed. The list on the right side is empty. It will hold the programmed titles. The gadgets between the two lists are used to clear the actual program (New), to select the selection mode of the program list and to select the actually edited program. The programming system is very simple: Whenever you select a title of the left list, it is appended to the program list. If you select a title in the right list, the action depends on the selection mode: It can be deleted or moved up, down, to the top or to the bottom of the program list. Start program mode ( PG# ): This gadget activates the program mode of MCDP. The display shows "PGM" then. If you klick on "Play" now, the first title of the start program will be played. Alternatively, you can select the number of a program using the number gadgets before. 5. Keyboard control: MCDP uses the numeric keypad in conjunction with Ctrl and the left Alt key as hotkeys for all basic functions. Therefore, the window doesn't necessarily have to be selected. The keys are assigned as follows: __ __ __ __ | | |^ |+ | |__|__|__|__| Enter Start |7 |8 |9 ||<| . Stop and quit program mode |__|__|__|__| 1-9 Play title 1-9 |4 |5 |6 |>|| 0 Play title 10 |__|__|__|__| + Play next title |1 |2 |3 |> | - Play previous title |__|__|__| | / Eject CD |10 |[]| | * Direct input |_____|__|__|
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